Before you upload anything
Is your manuscript safe here?
A fair question to ask before handing a book you spent two years on to a website. Here are the specifics rather than a reassuring sentence.
- Not training data
- Your book is never used to train a model.
- File not kept
- Uploads are read in memory and discarded.
- Default is offline
- The standard analysis makes no model call at all.
The worry is reasonable and specific: that uploading a manuscript means feeding it to a model that will learn from it, or losing control of who holds a copy. So rather than a privacy policy, here is what actually happens, mechanism by mechanism.
The uploaded file is never stored
It is parsed in memory during import and discarded. No copy of your document sits in a bucket. The extracted chapters are saved to your account, and deleting them deletes the text.
The measurements run in your browser
Mechanics, repetition, sentence metrics and readability are computed on your own machine while you read. No request is sent anywhere to produce them.
Spelling is the one exception
The dictionaries are too large to send to a browser, so a spelling check sends chapter text to the server, checks it, and returns the findings. It is not stored and not logged.
Nothing is used for training
Not to improve a model, not as an anonymised dataset, not later. If that ever changed it would have to be a choice you opt into, not a policy update you skim.
How it goes
- 1
You upload
Read in memory, never written to storage.
- 2
You read the findings
Computed locally, except the spelling check, which is discarded after.
- 3
You delete
Removing a manuscript removes its text.
Questions
Do you train AI on my book?
No. Your manuscript is never used as training data for any model.
Do you keep the file I upload?
No. It is parsed during import and discarded. Only the chapters extracted from it are saved to your account, and deleting them deletes the text.
Does my writing get sent to an AI company?
Not for the standard analysis, which makes no model call at all. Optional AI suggestions exist; if you ask for one, the relevant text is sent to a model provider to generate that response and is not used for training. You are told before it happens, and if you never ask, it never happens.
Who at your company can read my manuscript?
Nobody as part of normal operation. Support would only look at content you deliberately send us to reproduce a problem you reported.
Can I get my work back out?
Yes, at any point, as a document. No export fee and no lock-in.
What if the company disappears?
Export your manuscript and you have it. Your book was never only here, and it should never only be here.